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SPORTS

No. 8 Spartans drop overtime heartbreaker to No. 10 Iowa

When the No. 8 MSU field hockey team played No. 10 Iowa on Saturday, both the Spartans and Hawkeyes lived up to their billings, playing a tough match with Iowa eventually coming out on top 4-3 in overtime. Iowa, who before the game had outscored its opponents 25-6 in the first half, stayed consistent — jumping out to a quick 1-0 lead despite MSU possessing the ball for most of the first half.

VOLLEYBALL

MSU drops both weekend games

The MSU volleyball team suffered another rough weekend, losing to No. 19 Illinois and No. 18 Purdue. The Spartans, on a five-game losing streak, have now fallen to 11-10 on the season and 3-7 in the Big Ten. The team struggled mightily against Illinois on Friday, falling quickly in three sets (25-17, 25-18, 25-17). MSU seemed overmatched, as Illinois used long rallies in the middle of all three matches to open up insurmountable leads.

FOOTBALL

Go green go white

Cash Kruth
October 26, 2008

One year ago, Blair White was a walk-on at MSU, stuck on special teams while occasionally seeing time at wide receiver. Saturday morning, he was an afterthought — just another wide receiver filling a role as the No. 3 man on the MSU depth chart. But by Saturday evening, Blair White was a household name for MSU football fans across the country, as the junior hauled in four catches for 143 yards and a touchdown — the first of his career — in MSU’s 35-21 victory over Michigan.

ICE HOCKEY

Spartans take 3-of-4 points from Northern Michigan

Alex DiFilippo
October 26, 2008

The horn sounded throughout the latter half of Saturday night’s MSU hockey game at Munn Ice Arena, but it wasn’t the horn to signify a goal being scored — it was the horn to signify a fire. Thankfully Munn didn’t go up in smoke, and despite a few stoppages, the errant false alarm didn’t disrupt the No. 12 Spartans’ performance as they won Saturday’s game 2-0 and took 3-of-4 points during the weekend series against No. 18 Northern Michigan.

MSU

Annual cleanup purges Red Cedar of trash

Thomas Luxon
October 26, 2008

Spirits were high and water levels were even higher Saturday as volunteers attended the Red Cedar River Cleanup. About 50 volunteers, working on sections of the river ranging from the Kellogg Center parking ramp to Hagadorn Road, pulled several bikes, as well as a futon, shopping cart and desktop computer, from the river.

MICHIGAN

Sushi Ya move may crowd market

Jeff Kanan
October 26, 2008

An open kitchen and large seating area will greet customers of Sushi Ya, which opened Friday in a new location at 529 E. Grand River Ave., and becomes the third sushi bar to open along a one-block stretch of Grand River Avenue. The sushi restaurant serves the same kitchen food, seafood and sushi, but an expanded kitchen should contribute to kitchen food sales, said Nathan Carney, a store manager.

MICHIGAN

Gay rights not high on candidates' 2008 agenda

Zack Colman
October 26, 2008

During the 2004 presidential election, the terms “moral,” “social,” “traditional” and “family” values were interchangeable and unavoidable. Riding high on support from religious conservatives, incumbent presidential candidate George W. Bush benefited from the political climate that gave him four more years in the White House.

COMMENTARY

Offering SAT incentives to improve rank dishonest

Baylor University is trying to win a popularity contest. Baylor, which is located in Waco, Texas, recently offered credit or money to its admitted freshmen as incentive to retake the SAT. The school offered $300 in campus bookstore credit for simply retaking the test and $1,000 in scholarship aid for those who raised their score by at least 50 points.

COMMENTARY

Unfair portrayals of U-M students makes MSU students look bad

The most recent of Ian Brown’s comics is very disappointing to me. It states that the No. 2 reason University of Michigan stinks is because “they have to work too hard.” The drawing is of a guy with glasses reading from a tall stack of books in Ann Arbor juxtaposed with an East Lansing scene of someone napping midday.

COMMENTARY

Proposal 2 could bring new cures

In my time as a columnist for this paper, I have written on a number of occasions about stem cell research, largely focused on embryonic stem cell research and the need for a revision of Michigan’s severe and archaic laws that restrict it. I also have looked at the issue on a national level, such as when I wrote about standing on the Capitol lawn in Washington, D.C., with 150 diabetic children singing “Promise to Remember Me” on the day before President Bush vetoed the bipartisan Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act for a second time.

COMMENTARY

Investing endowment in stock market not unwise

If you are going to write an editorial on the endowment fund and on the stock market (Endowment losses are cause for serious concern SN 10/22), could you at least have someone who has a decent knowledge of finances, the stock market and proper investment strategy write it?

FOOTBALL

Bringing down the Big House!

Jacob Carpenter
October 25, 2008

Ann Arbor — Six straight losses to Michigan — over. Eight consecutive losses at Michigan Stadium since 1990 — over. Snarky putdowns of “little brother” and guarantees of victory against MSU — over.

MSU

MSU Board approves tuition hike

Justin Harris
October 24, 2008

The MSU Board of Trustees approved today a tuition and fee increase of 1.2 percent for the Spring 2009 semester. The increase comes after state appropriations for the 2008-2009 school year were 2 percent less — or $5.8 million less — than what the board expected when it developed the current budget. The 1.2 percent tuition and fee increase will cover $2.9 million of that difference. The remaining $2.9 million will be funded from the 2007-2008 general fund balance.

NEWS

Police Brief 10/24/08

Abby Lubbers
October 23, 2008

A white MacBook laptop computer was stolen around 11 p.m. Wednesday from the Main Library, MSU police Sgt. Florene McGlothian-Taylor said.

FOOTBALL

Spartans look to come back from Ohio State loss with victory against rival

Cash Kruth
October 23, 2008

Ohio State exposed MSU’s biggest flaw that everyone already knew about — speed kills the Spartans. With Michigan becoming the latest Big Ten team to employ a version of the spread offense, this could theoretically be another long day for the MSU defense. That being said, U-M’s offense lacks playmakers, and the Spartans — with the exception of last week — have played their “bend but don’t break” defense to perfection.